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Gas Hydrates Resource Assessment – Atlantic OCS Region

BOEM gas hydrate resource assessment model for the Atlantic OCS is similar to the cell-based, mass balance approach that was initially developed for the 2008 Gulf of Mexico assessment. The two most significant changes in modeling approach include the introduction of a Bottom Simulating Reflector (BSR) as a spatial input and the removal of the lateral, or dip-driven, component of the gas migration model. The BOEM model predicts the highest density accumulations of gas hydrate in-place will reside in the central and northern Atlantic OCS, due in large part to the greater likelihood of sandstone reservoirs in the subsurface.

Atlantic OCS model results are summarized below in BOEM Fact Sheet RED-2012-01, and complete reporting on the detail of the Atlantic OCS model is available below in BOEM Report RED 2013-01.